The 2025 Hall of Fame Banquet is being held at the NAU High Country Conference Center on August 16, 2025. Being honored that evening will be...

Richard Estrella

Coach Estrella grew up in the Sunnyside neighborhood, and as a student at Coconino High School, he became interested in wrestling. After graduation he joined the US Air Force he coached the All-Air Force Wrestling program in 1987. He continued coaching after his discharge and went on to the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing as head coach. He continues to train young wrestlers in Colorado who travel and participate in international competitions.

Matt Kendall

Matt played both sides of the ball for Eagles Football and earned First Team Arizona All-Conference status in 1979 and 1980 as a defensive back. He also excelled at track and field and was crowned the 1981 Conference and Arizona state pole vault champion. In addition to his athletic talents, he was fourth in academics in his 1981 graduating class. These accomplishments brought him for multiple scholarship offers, both athletic and scholastic, but he chose NAU, and while he was there, he was president of two national academic honor societies while continuing in track and field. He was the Big Sky Conference pole vault champion in 1985 and 1986 and was also received the 1986 Golden Eagle Award as one of NAU’s top student athletes. He continued to compete post-graduation, and in 1997 he was the USA Track and Field Masters pole vault national champion.

Shauna Kifer (Isbell)

Shauna was a Taekwondo enthusiast, earning her Black Belt at age 12. When her family moved to Flagstaff, she explored other sports, including wrestling, wrestling with the boys in middle school. At Coconino, she participated in track and field, cross-country, volleyball, and wrestling, but she made her mark in wrestling, making history as the first girl qualifying in the 112-pound weight class to place in state competition. Shauna graduated with nine varsity letters, seven AIA state appearances, and nine state placements, one in boys wrestling and eight in track and field events and two high school wrestling National Championships. She earned an academic and wrestling scholarship to Linwood University and became a four-time WCWA All-American and National Champion and earned a place in the 2012 US Olympic trials.

Terry Mahan

Hometown product Terry Mahan competed in baseball, basketball, and football in his time at Coconino High School. He finished the 1982 football season as the Panthers’ all-time leading receiver, and in baseball he had a slugging average of over .300. He earned a full scholarship to NAU, where he backed up future Detroit Lions receiver Pete Mandley. One of the joys he took as a Lumberjack was travel, playing at venues like Fresno State, Boise State, and Montana. In his junior year, he was named MVP of the receiving corps his junior season. Terry is being inducted into the FSF Hall of Fame for his outstanding career and for the inspiration he provided to his beloved teammates.

Janet Martin (Natt)

Janet graduated from Flagstaff High Schook in 1958 and was the first black female athlete to win sports letters in basketball, volleyball, and softball, sixteen years before Title IX became the law of the land. Janet once said that “whenever the school opened a sport for women to participate in, she immediately became a player” In her freshmen year, Janet was captain of the intermural Thunderbirds, earned 500 points to letter in volleyball that year, her first of four. As a sophomore she became a member of the Letterwoman’s Club and competed in interscholastic basketball, softball, and volleyball and was on the pom-pom squad in her junior and senior years. The Green and Brown yearbook named her as “Best in Athletes” her graduating year.

Mike Moran

Mike fell in love with basketball as a Boston youth watching the Celtics and legendary guard Bob Cousy. He played point guard himself as a senior in high school and developed his skills through play and informal coaching, eventually interning with the legendary Coach Royce Youree at Phoenix East High School. In 1979 he became the Head Coach for both boys and girls at St. Mary’s Parochial and that eventually convinced him Flagstaff was his home. He coached at both Flagstaff High School and Coconino High School, JV and varsity, boys and girls teams. He led Panther Basketball to two 4A semifinal berths as their head coach. That same year, Coach Moran was named Coach of the Year by the AZ Daily Sun, and overall, in his career he was honored for his 331 wins while with Flagstaff schools. He also coached baseball and football at Coconino.

Greg Stroud

Growing up in Bakersfield, Greg participated in little league baseball, basketball, and track. His lack of size prevented him from playing youth football, but by the time his family moved to Flagstaff and he was enrolled at East Flagstaff Junior High, he was in pads and competing in multiple sports. He played cornerback and receiver for Coconino and was part of their state championship teams in 1973 and 1974. After high school, Greg played for Mesa Community College and was named their defensive player of the year, which helped him earn a full NCAA division one scholarship to Duke University, where he played defensive free safety. He joined the US Navy and received his commission from the Navy’s Aviation Officer’s Candidate School in Pensacola, earning his flight wings in 1983, and graduating from the Navy Fighter Weapons School as a Top Gun flyer in 1986. He retired as Brigadier General and Commander of the 162nd Fighter Wing of the Arizona National Guard in January 2024.

Paul Sweitzer

Paul Sweitzer was born in Flagstaff and returned to keep its history and stories going through the years. The original publisher and owner of the Arizona Daily Sun, historian Platt Cline, after whom the NAU Cline Library is named, hired Paul Sweitzer after he had graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1958. Many of his stories are still held in the Arizona Daily Sun archives. Paul himself has his own photographic collection in the Cline library as well with over 700 images from the 1960s and 1970s – The Paul Sweitzer Collection. Generations of hometown coaches and athletes owe him a debt of gratitude.

1977 Coconino High School Cross Country Class AA State Champions

Coached by Jack Boehle, five seniors led the Panthers – Frankie Nez, Arthur Long, Fabian Marinez, John Thompson, and Glenn Tsingine – to the 1977state championship. Nate Thompson and Mark Lozano filled out the seven-runner team. Their season ended that year with a 7-0 mark in dual meets. Coach Boehle passed away in 2020 and will be fondly remembered at the banquet.

The Foundation will also be celebrating the 70th anniversary of Flagstaff High School's 1955 Class A Boys' Basketball state champions.

Coached by Fred Anderson, the 1955 Eagles had a record of 22-3 and defeated Miami for the title, 77-68. Charles Potee was the team captain and earned First Team All-State honors. Don Buttram also made First Team, while Albert Montoya was named Second Team.

Standing from left to right in the team portrait above:

#6 Charles Potee, Guard

#8 Voie "Bo" Coy, Guard

#12 Charles Williams, Center

#11 Lynn Gonzalez, Forward

#9 Robert "Bo" Dickerson, Forward

#13 Bill Hunter, Forward

#17 Don Buttram, Center

#15 Albert Montoya, Forward

#7 Mike Flournoy, Forward

#10 Arvin Randall, Guard

#14 Jack Jordan, Guard

#16 Bob Blair, Guard

#5 Eddie Vargara, Forward

#3 Clinton McNeal, Guard

Coach Fred Anderson (kneeling)

Various pictures of the honorees...